Traveline

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Traveline is a partnership between local authorities and transport operators in the UK to provide impartial and comprehensive information about public transport which has operated since 2000.[1] It prepares comprehensive public transport data for the UK and provides a number of regional public transport journey planners.[2]

History

See also: Transport Direct

The organisation was established in 2000.[3]

A prototype national door-to-door journey for Great Britain (i.e. UK without Northern Ireland) using the Traveline regional journey planners was available for evaluation by 'stakeholders and key opinion formers' by November 2003 and the service was officially launched by Alistair Darling, the then Secretary of State for Transport on 31 December 2004.[4]

In March 2010 Gordon Brown, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announced that the NaPTAN dataset would be released as Open Data.[5]

Operation

The Traveline regions assemble the public transport information within their areas and make it available through a number of local public transport journey planners. Some regions provide information for use with Google Transit journey planner, but most don't.

Regional Own planner Google planner[6] Notes
East AngliaMDVYes
East MidlandsMDVYes
LondonMDVYesTransport for London also operates its own MDV system[7]
North East & CumbriaJourneyPlanNo
North WestTrapeze[8]No
ScotlandTrapeze[9]Yes
South EastMDVYes
South WestMDV[8]No
WalesTrapeze[10]No
West MidlandsTrapeze[8]No
YorkshireTrapeze[8]No

Details of all bus stops in the country are assembled into the National Public Transport Access Nodes database (NaPTAN) which is updated daily. The organisation also maintains the associated National Public Transport Gazetteer of all place names, both formal and informal, that may be used to indicate the destination for a requested journey. These datasets are provided to both Google Maps and OpenStreetMap. They have also been released as Open Data via data.gov.uk.

Public transport schedules are provided for use with the Transport Direct Portal on a weekly basis for use within the 'national journey planner for Great Britain'.[2]

Once a year all the schedules for the county by all modes (including the information collected and maintained by Traveline) is assembled into the National Public Transport Data Repository which is prepared every October is used for the creation of Core Accessibility Indicators for every part of the UK.[11] This data is also used within products such as MySociety's Mapumental.

Some bus operators provide information via the Electronic Bus Service Registration (EBSR) system using the TransXChange when passing information between operators, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA), Traveline.[12]

Organisational structure

For operational and data preparation purposes the UK is divided in the following regions/nations:[13] The boundaries are not identical to the Regions of England.

Name Members Notes
Cymru/Wales
East AngliaCambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
East MidlandsDerby, Derbyshire, Leicester, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Peterborough, Rutland
LondonTransport for London
North East & CumbriaCumbria, Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Northumberland, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees, Tyne and Wear
Northern Ireland
North WestBlackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Greater Manchester, Halton, Lancashire, Merseyside, Warrington
Scotland
South East (excluding London)Bedford, Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove, Buckinghamshire Central, Bedfordshire, East Sussex, Essex, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Luton, Medway, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, Southend-on-Sea, Surrey, Thurrock, West Berkshire, West Sussex, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham
South WestBath and North East Somerset, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, North Somerset, Plymouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Somerset, Southampton, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Torbay and Wiltshire
West MidlandsHerefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire
YorkshireEast Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and York

Advisory body

The advisory body of the national organisation consists of the following organisations:-[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "What is traveline?". Traveline. Retrieved 2010-02-08. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Traveline Data". PTI. Retrieved 2010-02-08. 
  3. ↑ "History". Traveline. Retrieved 2010-02-08. 
  4. ↑ "History and strategy". Retrieved 2010-01-07. 
  5. ↑ "Speech on Building Britain’s Digital Future". National Archives. Retrieved 2010-06-29. 
  6. ↑ "Plan a trip using public transportation". Google. Retrieved 2011-10-26. 
  7. ↑ "Planning and corporate panel". Transport for London. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Which Website were you after ?". Trapeze. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  9. ↑ "Case Study: Traveline Scotland". Trapeze. Retrieved 2010-03-027. 
  10. ↑ "Case Study: PTI Cymru & Modus". Trapeze. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  11. ↑ "National Public Transport Data Repository". PTI. Retrieved 2010-02-08. 
  12. ↑ "01-02-08 New bus registration system to improve real-time information for passengers". Department for Transport. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  13. ↑ "Public Transport Information". Traveline. Retrieved 2010-02-08. 
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